Seeing the twisted serpent struggling to untangle itself, the approaching people's eyes widened disbelievingly.
What happened during their absence?
They were Feng Cheng's escorts. Xiao Rufeng and Feng Cheng both disappeared in a strange place; they searched the whole place several times yet found no one. So they came back to get more helpers.
Obviously, Feng Cheng was more important than the stupid serpent. The returned escorts took the remaining ones with them and went to find their Lord again. Though Bai Yanran and the others didn't go, they kept a distance from that serpent.
The fire was getting stronger and stronger, spreading to the edges of their location. They had to leave this place and march forward again.
Someone intended to catch the stupid serpent, but he was scared back before getting any closer to it.
It was really a bit stupid, but its strength didn't lose out. If a common person tried to take it down, they'd only be killing themselves.
"Hiss!" You foolish mortal, come back! Don't run!
After those people left, Ming Shu took the lifeless egg, approaching the serpent. "Well, let me ask you a question. If you give me a satisfying answer, I will help you untie yourself."
"Humph, no human is kindhearted. Do you think I will believe you?" The serpent's voice was full of distrust.
Ming Shu smiled carelessly. "Okay, then, sorry to interrupt."
The serpent was a little doubtful as it saw Ming Shu turn around to leave, but soon it grew anxious. "You, wait, stop."
Ming Shu turned to look at it.
The golden pupils of the serpent narrowed into slits. It spit out its scarlet tongue. "What do you want to know?"Although it did not want to help this human at all, it really wanted the egg.
The human was cunning, and the serpent was just the same.
Ming Shu raised the colorful egg. "What is this egg?"
"Give it to me and I'll tell you."
Ming Shu thought for a moment, then threw the egg at it. The serpent grabbed the egg with its free tail. But before it could become ecstatic, its glee was put out just like a pot of cold water poured onto a fire. "It's dead, how did it die? What did you do?"
Was this creature a fool? Didn't it hear the conversation before between her and that Master of the Drunken Grass Pavilion?
"You didn't say whether you wanted it dead or alive." Ming Shu spread her hands helplessly, her smile sweet.
"Ahh!" The serpent roared, its twisted body rolling on the ground like a hill. The ground trembled under its movement as well.
"Wow, wow, calm down, okay? I didn't kill this egg. It was the goblin from earlier, he did it, you should blame him." Ming Shu immediately dumped the responsibility onto the man as she saw the serpent was going mad.
The serpent truly had a worrying IQ; it really stopped going mad after hearing Ming Shu's words. With its long tail, it tossed the egg back to Ming Shu and said angrily, "This is a divine beast's egg. I'll be able to upgrade if I eat it. Damn, where does that human live? I'm going to find and punish him."
Divine beast?
Is this something prepared for the female protagonist?
Ming Shu began to recall the story. It seemed the fake female protagonist indeed got a divine beast at the Windy Mountain Range of Demons. Originally, without her stirring everything, the story's plot developed very smoothly and seriously. Xiao Rufeng counterattacked all the way, acquiring rare and valuable treasures, and walking a very smooth uphill road.
